Salk to Be Honored by Einstein Medical School, Mt. Sinai Haspital

Dr. Jonas Salk, conqueror of polio, will be the first recipient of the Bela Schick Award for an outstanding contribution to pediatrics, sponsored by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University. He will also be awarded the Jacoby Medallion of the associated alumni of Mount Sinai Hospital, where he interned.

Dr. Salk was to have received the Schick Award last June at a dinner following the cornerstone laying at the new medical school, but he refused to accept it until results of the tests, then under way, proved the vaccine effective. Dr. Salk once worked under Dr. Schick, when the latter was chairman of the pediatric department at Mount Sinai Hospital and Dr. Salk was a young resident physician. The Schick Award, in a form not yet decided, will probably be given to Dr. Salk next fall. The Jacoby Medallion will be presented to him here Sunday.

The University of Pittsburgh researcher, who received his Jewish education at the Bronx Jewish Center, is a graduate of a Bronx public school and Twonsend Harris High School, which was for ” exceptional boys.” He graduated from high school at the age of E. and entered the College of the City of New York. He worked during summer vacations and part-time during the school year

After graduation from City College he entered New York University’s School of Medicine. At N. Y. U. his professor of the Salk vaccine released yesterday. Later he worked with Dr. Francis at the University of Michigan where, together, they developed the commercial influenza vaccines now on the market. In 1947, the University of Pittsburg chose Dr. Salk to start its virus laboratory. His major interest was to find a more effective flu vaccine and he did this, in 1953, even while he was working on the polio vaccine.